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- who: Gau00ebtan Gavazzi from the Service Universitaire Gu00e9riatrie Clinique, La Tronche, Grenoble, France have published the paper: Procalcitonin to reduce exposure to antibiotics and individualise treatment in hospitalised old patients with pneumonia: a randomised study, in the Journal: (JOURNAL) of 19/09/2011
- what: Although the superiority of the strategy was not tested using a composite criterion combining antibiotic therapy duration and recovery rate was not tested due to the small sample size this study showed that monitoring associated with PCT-guided algorithm could help shorten antibiotic treatment duration in the very old patients without . . .
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